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Canon has a lot of 20 year old 500nm semiconductor production machines.
They can't let that old trash stay idle, they have to keep churning out microchips one way or another.
In Canon's case, they came them keep churning out shitty FF sensors with crippled DR, crippled video, crippled everything.
Nobody wants to buy mobile phone sensors from Canon, so they can't produce those.
Nobody wants to buy P&S sensors from Canon, so they can't produce too many of those either.
>FPA-5510iX is capable 0.5 µm resolution across a large field (50 mm x 50 mm or more) by adopting a 1:2 reduction projection lens.
>Suitable for products requiring a large exposure field such as image sensor, advanced packaging and MEMS2 applications.
>FPA-5510iX can perform one-shot exposure for applications with a chip size larger than a normal stepper exposure area (26 mm x 33 mm) and can improve both image quality and productivity when compared to smaller field steppers that require stitching of adjacent shots to expand field size.
It's an old company stuck with trash technology.